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Support of CentOS for SPfVE as Datamover

Due to licensing issues, we would like to use CentOS as the operating system. Unfortunately we could not find the support in the support matrix.After consultation with the support I was informed that this support is unfortunately not considered.Si...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Operation Center - Security Notification Enhancement

Hello Team, Looking for some enhancement for Operation center, Security Notification Feature
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Global Exclude List

We are after a Global Exclude list of VMs that we can use to exclude VMs across ALL SLA Policies in SPP
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow file-indexing without sudo(root) on Linux VM's or local admin id on Windows VM's

System: Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.8Request: Need new feature on SPP to allow file-indexing on on Windows VM's with out a local admin account on the VM and on Linux VM's without granting sudo(root) all access on the VM.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enhance the deactivate data command with optional filespace parameter

At this moment, the deactivate data command allows one to deactivate data on the node level only. If the filespace parameter is added to the command, one could use this command to deactivate all data for one (or more) filespaces only. Deactivatein...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

command approval- Non approver can promote himself as "approver"

The existing admin who was not configured as Approver can issue the command "update admin admin1 cmdapprover=yes" and promote himself as approver and approve for the his / others pending tasks. Its violating the purpose of having such feature.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

SLA schedules are removed to early from ISPP

When the last VM or Database is removed from a SLA policy ISPP will also remove the complete schedule for this SLA.Unfortunately this also includes all post processes like replication or archiving, which means the backup data will not be copied to...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

Activities history (audits).

Hallo As we see, practically, there is no user (admin) activity logs in the SPP. It is not possible for example, to track, who and when apply or remove SLA from VM or application. It would be nice to have activities list for different operations, ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Automated Restore for Spectrum Protect family of products

Spectrum Protect is lacking any functionality which can automatically verify backup copies, whether they have been created using the BA client, TDP agents or Spectrum Protect Plus. Since Cristie pulled support for SP4VE from their Recovery Simulat...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

SP Plus interface enhancement: job monitor

In the Job monitor tab, add possiblity to filter entries to easily differentiate administrative tasks and backup tasks . Basically the Type column is already there but cannot be even used to sort the entries.Furthermore another column providing th...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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